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system() function doesnt work outside cygwin
- To: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: system() function doesnt work outside cygwin
- From: mbuch at IFF572 dot IFF dot KFA-JUELICH dot DE
- Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 20:07:26 +0100 (CET)
- Reply-To: m dot buchmeier at fz-juelich dot de
My application (build with unix layer, recent cygwin
distro, win2K) cant call other programs using the system()
fucntion when started from outside the cygwin enviroment.
I have tryed out both posix and unix complete path
without success.
Here is a simple code that reproduces the problem:
main()
{
system("notepad");
}
It works fine when invoked from within cygwin
but when called fron windows nothing happens.
Anyone knows what i am doing wrong ?
Thanks in advance for your help
Matthias
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